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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-11-03 21:35:27 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-11-03 21:35:27 +0000
commit89cca6e9072585b82841485491dde5586647730a (patch)
treee87b2599cbc29e70b8dbb0c8035a468c71f6f33a
parent67d9211fd6b73ecfe3bbff753be36b960373592a (diff)
Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools' testsuite
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7118 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter03/packages.xml7
-rw-r--r--chapter06/module-init-tools.xml15
-rw-r--r--general.ent4
4 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 0e75028b2..849a0cc20 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+<listitem><para>November 3, 2005 [matt]: Correct the instructions for running
+Module-Init-Tools' testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar
+Teredesai and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
</listitem>
diff --git a/chapter03/packages.xml b/chapter03/packages.xml
index bd078c108..1a467ec13 100644
--- a/chapter03/packages.xml
+++ b/chapter03/packages.xml
@@ -298,6 +298,13 @@ url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp"/>.</para></note>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+<term>Module-Init-Tools-Testsuite (&module-init-tools-version;) - 34 KB:</term>
+<listitem>
+<para><ulink url="&kernel;linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/"/></para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
<term>Ncurses (&ncurses-version;) - 1,683 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/"/></para>
diff --git a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
index 3d990f214..3c4af9c6b 100644
--- a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
+++ b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ installed in LFS. Run the following command to avoid this:</para>
<screen><userinput>touch modprobe.conf.5</userinput></screen>
+<para>If you wish to run the test suite for Module-Init-Tools, download the
+separate tarball and unpack it along with the source tarball. The testsuite
+tarball will unpack into a <filename class='directory'>tests</filename>
+directory of the source tree. Issue the following commands to perform the tests
+(note that the <command>make distclean</command> command is required to clean up
+the source tree, as the source gets recompiled as part of the testing process):
+</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure &amp;&amp;
+make check &amp;&amp;
+make distclean</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Module-Init-Tools for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix="" --enable-zlib</userinput></screen>
@@ -56,9 +68,6 @@ kernel modules.</para></listitem>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>To test the results, issue:
-<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
-
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 12f2679e1..33b78ddfa 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20051101">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "November 1, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20051103">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "November 3, 2005">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->